Transatlanticism - Lyrics - Transatlanticism - Death Cab For Cutie

Title: Transatlanticism
Album: Transatlanticism
Artist: Death Cab For Cutie
Composer(s): Benjamin Gibbard, Christopher Walla

Lyric:
The atlantic was born today and I'll tell you how
The clouds above opened up and let it out

I was standing on the surface of a perforated sphere
When the water filled every hole
And thousands upon thousands made an ocean
Making islands where no island should go
Oh no

Those people were overjoyedthey took to their boats
I thought it less like a lake and more like a moat
The rhythm of my footsteps crossing flood lands to your door have been silenced forever more
The distance is quite simply much too far for me to row
It seems farther than ever before
Oh no

I need you so much closer
I need you so much closer
I need you so much closer
I need you so much closer
I need you so much closer
I need you so much closer
I need you so much closer
I need you so much closer

Instrumental break

I need you so much closer
I need you so much closer
I need you so much closer
I need you so much closer
So come on, come on
So come on, come on
So come on, come on
So come on, come on

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We Looked Like Giants - Lyrics - Transatlanticism - Death Cab For Cutie

Title: We Looked Like Giants
Album: Transatlanticism
Artist: Death Cab For Cutie
Composer(s): Benjamin Gibbard, Jason Mc Gerr, Nicholas Harmer, Christopher Walla

Lyric:
God bless the daylight
The sugary smell of springtime
Remembering when you were mine
In a still suburban town

When every Thursday
I'd brave those mountain passes
And you'd skip your early classes
And we'd learn, how our bodies worked

God damn the black night
With all its foul temptations
I've become what I always hated
When I was with you then

We looked like giants
In the back of my grey subcompact
Fumbling to make contact
As the others slept inside

And together there
In a shroud of frost, the mountain air
Began to pass from every pane of weathered glass
And I held you closer than anyone would ever get

Do you remember the JAMC?
And reading aloud from magazines
I don't know about you
But I swear on my name, they could smell it on me
I've never been too good with secrets, no

All together there
In a shroud of frost, the mountain air
Began to pass, from every pane of weathered glass
And I held you closer

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Expo '86 - Lyrics - Transatlanticism - Death Cab For Cutie

Title: Expo '86
Album: Transatlanticism
Artist: Death Cab For Cutie
Composer(s): Benjamin Gibbard, Christopher Walla

Lyric:
Sometimes I think this cycle never ends
We slide from top to bottom and we turn and climb again
And it seems by the time that I have figured what it's worth
The squeaking of our skin against the steel has gotten worse

But if I move my place in line I'll lose
And I have waited, the anticipation's got me glued

I am waiting for something to go wrong
I am waiting for familiar resolve

Sometimes it seems that I don't have the skills to recollect
The twists and turns of plot that turned us from lovers to friends
I'm thinking I should take that volume back up off the shelf
And crack it's weary spine and read to help remind myself

But if I move my place in line I'll lose
And I have waited, the anticipation's got me glued

I am waiting for something to go wrong
I am waiting for familiar resolve
I am waiting for another repeat
Another diet fed by crippling defeat

And I am waiting for that sense of relief
I am waiting for you to flee the scene
As if you held in your hand the smoking gun
And on the floor lay the one you said you loved

And it's strange, they are basically the same
So I don't ask names anymore

Sometimes I think this cycle never ends
We slide from top to bottom and we turn and climb again
And it seems by the time that I have figured what it's worth
The squeaking of our skin against the steel has gotten worse

The squeaking of our skin against the steel has gotten worse
The squeaking of our skin against the steel has gotten worse

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Passenger Seat - Lyrics - Transatlanticism - Death Cab For Cutie

Title: Passenger Seat
Album: Transatlanticism
Artist: Death Cab For Cutie
Composer(s): Benjamin Gibbard

Lyric:
I roll the window down
And then begin to breathe in

The darkest country road
And the strong scent of evergreen
From the passenger seat
As you are driving me home

Then looking upwards
I strain my eyes and try

To tell the difference between
Shooting stars and satellites
From the passenger seat
As you are driving me home

"Do they collide?"
I ask and you smile

With my feet on the dash
The world doesn't matter

When you feel embarrassed
Then I'll be your pride
When you need directions
Then I'll be the guide for all time
For all time

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A Lack Of Color - Lyrics - Transatlanticism - Death Cab For Cutie

Title: A Lack Of Color
Album: Transatlanticism
Artist: Death Cab For Cutie
Composer(s): Benjamin Gibbard

Lyric:
And when I see you
I really see you upside down
But my brain knows better
It picks you up and turns you around
Turns you around, turns you around
If you feel discouraged
That there's a lack of color here
Please don't worry lover
It's really bursting at the seems
Absorbing everything
The spectrum's a to z

This is fact not fiction
For the first time in years
And all the girls in every girlie magazine
Can't make me feel any less alone
I'm reaching for the phone

To call at 7 03 and on your machine I slur a plea for you to come home
But I know it's too late
I should have given you a reason to stay
Given you a reason to stay
Given you a reason to stay
Given you a reason to stay

This is fact not fiction
For the first time in years

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Title And Registration - Lyrics - Transatlanticism - Death Cab For Cutie

Title: Title And Registration
Album: Transatlanticism
Artist: Death Cab For Cutie
Composer(s): Benjamin Gibbard, Christopher Walla

Lyric:
The glove compartment isn't accurately named
And everybody knows it
So I'm proposing a swift orderly change

Cause behind its door there's nothing to keep my fingers warm
And all I find are souvenirs from better times
Before the gleam of your taillights fading east
To find yourself a better life

I was searching for some legal document
As the rain beat down on the hood
When I stumbled upon pictures I tried to forget
And that's how this idea was drilled into my head

Cause it's too important
To stay the way it's been

There's no blame for how our love did slowly fade
And now that it's gone it's like it wasn't there at all
And here I rest where disappointment and regret collide
Lying awake at night
There's no blame for how our love did slowly fade
And now that it's gone it's like it wasn't there at all
And here I rest where disappointment and regret collide
Lying awake at night (up all night)
When I'm lying awake at night

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Lightness - Lyrics - Transatlanticism - Death Cab For Cutie

Title: Lightness
Album: Transatlanticism
Artist: Death Cab For Cutie
Composer(s): Benjamin Gibbard

Lyric:
There's a tear in the fabric of your favorite dress
And I'm sneaking glances
Looking for the patterns in static
They start to make sense the longer I'm at it

Ivory lines lead

Your heart is a river
That flows from your chest through every organ
Your brain is the dam
And I am the fish who can't reach the cord

Ivory lines lead

Oh, instincts are misleading
You shouldn't think what you're feeling
They don't tell you what you know you should want

Ivory lines lead
Ivory lines lead

Oh, instincts are misleading
You shouldn't think what you're feeling
They don't tell you what you know you should want

Ivory lines lead
Ivory lines lead

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The New Year - Lyrics - Transatlanticism - Death Cab For Cutie

Title: The New Year
Album: Transatlanticism
Artist: Death Cab For Cutie
Composer(s): Benjamin Gibbard, Jason Mc Gerr, Nicholas Harmer, Christopher Walla

Lyric:
So this is the new year
And I don't feel any different
The clanking of crystal
Explosions off in the distance
In the distance

So this is the new year
And I have no resolutions
For self assigned penance
For problems with easy solutions

So everybody put your best suit or dress on
Let's make believe that we are wealthy for just this once
Lighting firecrackers off on the front lawn
As thirty dialog's bleed into one

I wish the world was flat like the old days
Then I could travel just by folding a map
No more airplanes, or speed trains, or freeways
There'd be no distance that can hold us back

There'd be no distance that could hold us back
There'd be no distance that could hold us back

So this is the new year
So this is the new year
So this is the new year
So this is the new year

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The Sound Of Settling - Lyrics - Transatlanticism - Death Cab For Cutie

Title: The Sound Of Settling
Album: Transatlanticism
Artist: Death Cab For Cutie
Composer(s): Benjamin Gibbard

Lyric:
I've got a hunger
Twisting my stomach into knots
That my tongue was tied off
My brain's repeating
If you've got an impulse let it out
But they never make it past my mouth

Baa bah, this is the sound of settling
Baa bah, baa bah

Baa bah, this is the sound of settling
Baa bah, baa bah

Our youth is fleeting
Old age is just around the bend
And I can't wait to go grey
And I'll sit and wonder
Of every love that could've been
If I'd only thought of something charming to say

Baa bah, this is the sound of settling
Baa bah, baa bah

Baa bah, this is the sound of settling
Baa bah, baa bah

Baa bah, this is the sound of settling
Baa bah, baa bah

Baa bah, this is the sound of settling
Baa bah, baa bah

I've got a hunger twisting my stomach into knots

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Death Of An Interior Decorator - Lyrics - Transatlanticism - Death Cab For Cutie

Title: Death Of An Interior Decorator
Album: Transatlanticism
Artist: Death Cab For Cutie
Composer(s): Benjamin Gibbard

Lyric:
You were the mother of three girls so sweet
Who stormed through your turnstile and climbed to the street
But after conception, your body lay cold
And withered through autumn and you found yourself old

Can you tell me why you have been so sad?
He took a lover on a far away beach
While you arranged flowers and chose color schemes
Can you tell me why you have been so sad?
Can you tell me why you have been so sad?

The girls were all there, they traded their vows
The youngest one glared with furrowed brows
They tenderly kissed then cut the cake
The bride then tripped and broke the vase

The one you thought would spend the years
So perfectly placed below the mirror
Arriving late, you clean the debris
And walked into the angry scene

It felt just like falling in love again
And it felt just like falling in love again

Can you tell me why you have been so sad?
Can you tell me why you have been so

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Tiny Vessels - Lyrics - Transatlanticism - Death Cab For Cutie

Title: Tiny Vessels
Album: Transatlanticism
Artist: Death Cab For Cutie
Composer(s): Benjamin Gibbard, Nicholas Harmer

Lyric:
This is the moment that you know
That you told her that you loved her but you don't
You touch her skin and then you think
That she is beautiful but she don't mean a thing to me
Yeah, she is beautiful but she don't mean a thing to me

I spent two weeks in Silver Lake
The California sun cascading down my face
There was a girl with light brown streaks
And she was beautiful but she didn't mean a thing to me
Yeah, she was beautiful but she didn't mean a thing to me

I wanted to believe in all the words that I was speaking
As we moved together in the dark
And all the friends that I was telling all the playful misspellings
And every bite I gave you left a mark

Tiny vessels oozed into your neck
And formed the bruises
That you said you didn't want to fade
But they did, and so did I that day

All I see are dark gray clouds
In the distance moving closer with every hour
So when you ask, "Is something wrong?"
I think, "You're damn right there is but we can't talk about it now
No, we can't talk about it now"

So one last touch and then you'll go
And we'll pretend that it meant something so much more
But it was vile, and it was cheap
And you are beautiful but you don't mean a thing to me
Yeah, you are beautiful but you don't mean a thing to me

So one last touch and then you'll go
And we'll pretend that it meant something so much more
But it was vile, and it was cheap
And you are beautiful but you don't mean a thing to me
Yeah, you are beautiful but you don't mean a thing to me

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